2008-10-12- 297_1 Fog-bow - River Thames Estuary (from PS Waverley October 2008)
*** 329 EXPLORE*** Novermber 26th 2008
On Oct 12th I went for a trip on the Paddle Steamer 'Waverley' from London to the River Medway. There was fog all day and it never totally cleared.
As we went down the Thames Estuary I noticed this effect of the light on the North side of the ship; it's plainly a refraction effect of the Sun on the Fog. It occupied quite a large arc, and I had to use the wide angle lens to capture it all.
You can see the railing from Waverley's upper deck, also, if you look closely enough, the shadow of one of Waverley's masts.
This photo was taken midway between Tilbury and Southend.
Something that was rather odd was that although the boat was swarming with photographers, some of whom were standing near to me, none of them seemed to take any notice of it. It lasted for some minutes, and I'd have certainly thought it was visible from the rest of the upper deck area.
I've never seen this before, information from other Flickr members will be very welcome, along with suggestions on how to improve it!
Ian from New Zealand has kindly identified this phenomenon as a 'Glory' and provided a Wikipedia link, which is
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon)
Tim Stone, (see below) has written to say that this isn't a Glory, it's a Fog-bow! So another change of title!
For more on Fog bows (and a great picture) see Tim's link; it's:-
2008-10-12- 297_1 Fog-bow - River Thames Estuary (from PS Waverley October 2008)
*** 329 EXPLORE*** Novermber 26th 2008
On Oct 12th I went for a trip on the Paddle Steamer 'Waverley' from London to the River Medway. There was fog all day and it never totally cleared.
As we went down the Thames Estuary I noticed this effect of the light on the North side of the ship; it's plainly a refraction effect of the Sun on the Fog. It occupied quite a large arc, and I had to use the wide angle lens to capture it all.
You can see the railing from Waverley's upper deck, also, if you look closely enough, the shadow of one of Waverley's masts.
This photo was taken midway between Tilbury and Southend.
Something that was rather odd was that although the boat was swarming with photographers, some of whom were standing near to me, none of them seemed to take any notice of it. It lasted for some minutes, and I'd have certainly thought it was visible from the rest of the upper deck area.
I've never seen this before, information from other Flickr members will be very welcome, along with suggestions on how to improve it!
Ian from New Zealand has kindly identified this phenomenon as a 'Glory' and provided a Wikipedia link, which is
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon)
Tim Stone, (see below) has written to say that this isn't a Glory, it's a Fog-bow! So another change of title!
For more on Fog bows (and a great picture) see Tim's link; it's:-